British Trade Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens current in London and its vicinity between the years 1648 and 1672, Large paper 1st edn, London, 1849, viii + 257pp, 8 engraved plates (Manville 362). Original blue cloth, binding somewhat distressed, complete but plates loose, some pencil annotations naming issuers of anonymous tokens in margins; first free endpaper signed ‘Emma Mary Akerman from her husband, April 27 1849’ £40-£60

ex libris Emma Mary Akerman (wife of the author); Tony Allnutt